REISS 284 — Following Professor Howard Feinstein’s Theology in the Third World, students emerged rattled and shaken from the two hour Catholic Studies seminar in the Reiss classroom after Howard uttered a deadly seven word phrase.

Professor Feinstein’s students expressed anger that he woud choose to “set himself up for failure” with such a question.

While the 300-level course initially hummed along in its first hour, Feinstein paused conversation as he transitioned topics to ask the 24-person class “did anyone had trouble accessing the reading?”

This unprompted question sent shockwaves throughout the classroom and left the two dozen students scrambling for a unified response.

The question, whose correct answer eluded 23 of the 24 students, received a few initial timid head nobs before bold classroom leaders stepped up in the situation and mumbled “yeah” or “mhmm.”

Coming out of the classroom, students expressed outrage at being unexpectedly pinned into a no-win situation.

“Either I say ‘yeah’ and I’m wrong and can’t access the documents on blackboard to cram for the midterm or I say ‘no’ and he checks later and calls us out on it,” said senior Haley Wently (COL ’15).

At press time, the lone person who knew the correct answer to the professor’s question confirmed the class had guessed correctly, but said there was “no way” he was going to be “that guy” and requested to remain anonymous.